Many see Karzai’s delays as an attempt to prevent the seating of a parliament which could check his power, though there doesn’t appear to be serious doubt of the veracity of the claims about election fraud.

This has raised the possibility of President Karzai deploying security forces to the parliament building to move against any of the MPs who attempt to enter. One of the MPs says this will determine whether Afghanistan is a democracy or an autocracy. Whichever it is, the one safe bet is that whoever is running the country will have won an election under questionable circumstances.

Author: Jason Ditz

Afghanistan continues on with its tragi-comedy ably assisted by the Americans. America's attempts at empire-building continue to get a fail grade. Wouldn't you think they'd get the idea that they're not cut out for it?

But no, they just blunder on from catastrophe to catastrophe and clearly demonstrate that they have no leadership qualities at all.